Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1887-11-19

| Byrons 'Long, long kiss, kiss Of youth and
love IS familiar to all, as also Crasham's famous
kiss "Ioves great artillery" The Latin poet
Johannes SecunduS becomes quite eloquent upon
sne subject "It is not Kiss Neaya gives he says,
III nectar, 1t is fragrant breath-dew. 1t is nard
ana thyme, and cinnamon. and honey such as bees
gather on the brows OF Hymethus. "And then he ex-
presses fear that If many are given him to devcur
he Will soon become immortal and partake OF the
oanquets OF the gods" such, then, some of the
usnhltlons OF o kiss. We must, however, confess
tnat accoi ding TO our way OF thinking PindarS Is
Dy lar the truest to nature, who when asked what
| s osculation?' replied:
Ejaculation. Nettie dear
fo lesr NED e sx re,;dn' queer.
Ippt my arm around your waist
That Is approximation.
There's no one near;
on. dear,
Nettie, that's osculation"
As to who first invented kisses we have not been
able to ascertain Happy for lovers that he did not
take out patent! Unhappy for him that he failed
OF Crrsls. And had every mortal who ever in
o,llged In kissing made a pilgrimage to his grave
aa east 81 o stone upon t. as es NJ
BeneventO his remains would be Overheaped by a
| Ver1fable Tower OF Babel.
ferred to, gives kisses DIVINE origin. He repre-
sents Cytherea as floating through the clouds
with her snowwhite swans, scattering kisses over
nelds for the use of man, 80 sprang the sole rem
| edy for lovers palns-kisses, the assuagers Of
other hand. regards them as rrne INVENTION OF IA a
mouth all glowing and bleSt:
IT kissd and it thought of nothing beside.
The flowers were ali from the earth fast Swinging
The sun WAS laughing. the birds were singing"
the first kiss of which there is any record IS the
famous kiss which Jacob gave to Rachel at the
we'll After bestow1ng which, we are tod that he
llfled up his voice and wept Our readers Will
doubtless recall the discussion this gave rise to
rev years ago, when every editor IN the land IN
dertook to give an explanation OF the youths
strange cOpduct-sO much so that column after
column OF newspapers were filed with the same.
we learn from ancient authors that kissing was
once common form OF salutation between man
and man, as also between men and women.
nerodotus, speaking Of the customs OF the
one another IN the streets, one may dis
cover by the following custom whether those who
meet are equals for Instead OF accoSting one
nTsIo hey Kiss on inc mGntn QUE be ftie
be OF much lower rank he prostrateS himself be-
fore the other.' Homer, In his odyssey, makes
Ulysses embrace him and Kiss both his head and
shoulders. and, adds the poet, "in Ike manner
Ulysses kissed their heads and hands" And PEN
elope Also when she recognizes the signs, OF which
Ulysses told her evidently, weeping, straight
! forward and threw her hands around the neck Of
Ulysses and kissed his head"
1t was also customary among the ancients for
the last kiss to be given by the dearest one when
az the point OF death, and was fancy OF old that
dying, their passing life. Thus Bion makes Venus
In her lament over Adonis, say, "Rousc thee
little Alonis, and again this last time kiss me
thy heart thy spirit shall have ebbed into my lips
and soul, and shall have drained thy sweet love
potil n and have drunk out thy love; and 1 will
treasure this kiss, even as 1t were AdOniS him.
self, since thou, 1ll-fated one dost fee from me"
And Virgil puts the following speech IN the mouth
wash her wounds Nth WAFER; and il any last
breath may llnSer above, that may catch It with
my mouth
Among the early Omissions It was a sign OF fel-
lowship. .'Greet all brethren with q holy Kiss, y
writes 1T. Paul TO the ThessalOnians and to the
Romans, salute one another with holy kiss"
Many OF the practices in vogue among lovers at
the present day, in regard TO kissing nay be
traced back 20 distant ages. Theocritus makes
p o. n In ano,se ge pIa g he G"s
rustic eSciaim, II love not Alcippe for but lately
she did not Kiss me- h0riag cn,tgDse on the cars"
This mode OF salutation Suidas calls the pot Kiss
abiding TO the double handle OF a Dot. 1t was
afterward called the FlOrentine, and was usually
bestowed as mark OF unusual tenderness. The
fOlloW1ng Is from one OF HOrace'S Odes:
while now her bending neck she plies
LAC Bsek XIV. 70 meet the burning kiss:
And wishes You would snatch. not ask the bliss :"
Shakespeare has given the world some rernarka.
Die kisses In the Tanning OF the Shrew Petru-
chic takes the bride about the neck and kisses her
lips
with such clsmorous smack,
That at the parting, all the church did echo"
In Richard the Third we are presented with the
following:
Their lips were four red roses on q stalk
And. in their summer beauty, kissed each other.r
Anthony and Cleopatra "kiss away Kingdoms
In the winters Tale VIC have '.Kissing with the
inside lip, and In Cymoelne reference Is made to
the aversion which fathers have to see their
daughters kissed by an unfavored suitor
Ere could
Give him I'll. that parting kiss. which had set
and like the .yra9nsns breath;ng Of the North
As TO whether 1t be wrong 10 kiss we refer the
reader to Burns:
"Somc ttat kissine's sin;
But think it's none ava,
For kissing has wonnd in this world
Since ever there was twa.
Oh! If it wasna lawful
Lawyers wadna allow it;
Ministers wadna do it;
If It wasna modest
Naitens wadna take it;
hit wasna pie ty
Poor folk wadna get it"
In the days OF our fathers 1t was the privilege OF
the driver 70 kiss hts fair companion every time
they passed toll gate, crossed bridge Some
times they claimed 10 whether they did 30 or not.
as we learn from w. W. Story, VINO tells us Of a
sleigh ride he took "many year ago:n
Eve talk and then are silent:
S;ooEpsiz ped help 10 You lifted your face
And he goes on to rejoice because among other
things, they heard .no paternal curse"
his Fair Maid OF Perth, 'tae maiden who yent,ired
| 10 kiss a sleeping man won OF him a pair OF
gloves,
OF the many kissing games we played as chill
dren We need make no mention, nor or the many
times our lips met with those OF each new love
What need we care that they are all welded now.
while we left to plod along the road or life soil
tary and alone. IL Is the Old, Old story OF SchOn
Ronrtraut and her page:
Tho she we're crowned her Maitor's uueen
Upon the coming morn, what ueed care:
For do not all the forests leaflets wot
That have Kissed schon Rohrtrauts beautcous
Who has not? Yon grim old man, whom LIES hand
| haulnering has hardened into wretch, is TO the
world greedy sk1nflint with q single thought
and yet who knows but In his desert heart there K
an oasis OF love and tenderness; and often when
we fancy him thinking about his money he IL In
| reality dreaming happily OF when, In years gone
| by, beneath the thickening gloom OF some ieaYy
forest, he kissed his own dear Rohrtraut'S mouth
We cannot more happily conclude our paper
than by quoting the answer or the celebrated
| painter, Benjamin West, who, when asked what II
was that urged him On in his ascent up the steeu
hill OF fame, replied, "A kiss from my mother made
| Inc painter FREDERIC j. HAHN.
The Rhcuma1tsm bug.
| THB EXTRAORDINARY JAPANESE DISCOVERY WHICH
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